Fire's likely cause was lit cigarette

Wednesday

Feb 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM

A weekend fire that gutted a rent house in the 200 block of East Webb Street in Carmi was likely caused by a lit cigarette.

Carmi Fire Chief Larry Hite and an investigator from the Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office combed through the house Monday and made the determination based on the evidence at the scene and interviews with the renter, Roger Raymond.

A weekend fire that gutted a rent house in the 200 block of East Webb Street in Carmi was likely caused by a lit cigarette.

Carmi Fire Chief Larry Hite and an investigator from the Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office combed through the house Monday and made the determination based on the evidence at the scene and interviews with the renter, Roger Raymond.

Hite said it appeared Raymond had been smoking a cigarette and fell asleep. He later awakened to a smoke-filled house. He was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.

Carmi firefighters were called to the 600 block of North Sixth Street around 9 a.m. Tuesday (today) on a report of smoke coming from a clothes dryer.

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